Release 2009a includes new features in
MATLAB and Simulink, two new products, ?
and updates and bug fixes to 91 other ?
products.

New capabilities for the MATLAB
product family include:
* Multicore support for fft and other MATLAB
functions
* Utilization of eight cores on your desktop
with Parallel Computing Toolbox
* Ability to use .NET classes directly in
MATLAB programs and applications
* Surface fitting, including surface fit
objects and a new GUI in Curve Fitting
Toolbox
* Generation of Simulink blocks from
symbolic math expressions in Symbolic Math
Toolbox
* Support for population pharmacokinetic
(PK) modeling in SimBiology, using
nonlinear mixed effects (NLME) models
* Vehicle Network Toolbox, a new product for
communicating with in-vehicle networks
using CAN protocol

New capabilities for the Simulink
product family include:
* Save, restore, and restart simulation
states in Simulink and Stateflow
* Fixed-point support for Discrete Filter
block and autoscaling of Simulink data
objects in Simulink Fixed Point
* Configure and generate code based on
high-level objectives, such as efficiency
and traceability in Real-Time Workshop
Embedded Coder
* Reduced RAM usage, faster execution time
and other code efficiency improvements in
Real-Time Workshop and Real-Time Workshop
Embedded Coder
* Simulink Design Optimization, a new
product for estimating and optimizing
Simulink model parameters